Drip-coffee pot.



No. 650,129. Patented May 22, 1900.

c. LEWIS.

DRIP COFFEE POT.

(Application filed Nov. 15, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED 1 STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES LEWIS, or CINCINNATI, onto, ASSIGNOR T JAMES I-IEEKIN .t 00.,

oFsAME PLACE. I

(DRIP-COFFEE POT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,129, dated May 22, 1900.

Application filed Novemherlfi, 1899. Serial No. 737,081. (No model.) 7

To all whom: it may concern: Be it known that I, CHARLES LEWIS, a citizen of the United-States,

Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of- Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drip-Cofiee Pots, of which the following is,a spec fication.

My inven'tionrelates to improvements in drip-coffee pots. Its object is a pot in which to make French or drip cofiee so that the least amount of the aroma of the colfee is lost by exposure to the air during the process of making, in which the hot water may be kept in contact with the ground coffee just thelength of time desired before commencing to drip, and which is so simple of construction that it is both cheap to inake and easy to clean. This object is attained by the means described in the annexed specification and illustiated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a View, partly insection and partly in side elevation, of a coffee-pot embodying my invention, the pot being shown in the position it occupies just after the hot water has been poured upon the ground cofiee contained in the vessel for holding it and the inverted pouring vessel has been fitted on top of it. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the pot reinverted and the cofleedri ppin g through the strainer into the pouring vessel. Fig. 3 is a view of a slightlymodified form of the vessel for holding the ground cofiee in a position similar water has been poured upon the coifee and the strainer placed over its top preparatory to' receiving the inverted pouring vessel. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the pouring vessel its spout being broken off at the end to economize space.

Referring to the parts, the cylindrical vessel A for holding the groundcofiee is open at one end a-and has a chamber a formed in its closed end a, in which is seated a nipple a", which is closed by a removable cap a, so that when the vessel is inverted, as in Figs. 1 and 3, it may rest steadily upon a flat surface the vessel A is a cir- A second circular flange a" encircles the vessel B has a cylin- Around the open end of cul'ar flange or ring a. outwardly-projecting vessel. The pouring and a resident of to that in Fig. 1 after the hot drical top I) to fit snugly over vessel A, flange a bearing against the interior walls of vessel B and flange a abutting aga'nst, the top of vessel B to limit the distance slides over vessel A. Vessel B has an inwardly-projecting flange 17, against which flange 0. abuts in this closed position of the vessels.

In use after hot water has been poured upon the ground coffee contained in the inverted vessel A,- nipple a being closed by cap a, a removable strainer 0; preferably of coarse cloth, is placed over the open end of vessel A, as shown in Fig. sel B is pushed down over it, as shown in Fig. 1. After being allowed to stand a short while 3, and the inverted vesthe coifee-pot is inverted and the cap a is removed from its nipple a", when the liquid coffee will, as shown inFig. 2, drip through the cloth into the pouring vessel, the cloth being held firmly in place by reason of the close contact of the two vessels. Should it be desired to check the liquid in vessel A from dripping into vessel B, it is ing cap 0/ upon its nipple.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the mouth of nipple a is closed bya check-valve a", which opens automatically when the vessel is reinverted.

It is seen that after vessel 13 has been placed over vessel A communication of the interior with the air is out 0E until the nipple a is removed and may be again out 06 when desired by replacing the nipple.

What I claim is- 1'. In a drip-coffee pot the combination of a vessel open at one end and closed at the other for re'ceivi. groundcoffee and hot water while resting upon its closed end and having a nipple closed by a removable cap near its closed end. a removable strainer to be placed over the open end of said vessel after the coffee and the water have been put into it, and a pouring vessel to fit down snugly over said vessel and strainer before the pot isreinverted, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a drip-coffee a vessel for holding ground cofiee open at one end and closed at the other having a chamber in its closed end, a nipple closed bya removable cap seated within the chamber, a re pot the Eombinationof movable strainer to fit over the open end of said vessel, and a pouring vessel to fit down :snugly over said vessel and strainer substan-' tially as shown anddescribed;

3. In a drip-coliee pot the combination of a vessel for holding ground eoifee open at one and closed at the other end, a nipple in .the

walls of said vessel near its closed end, a check-valve to close the mouth of said nipple 'ro' vwhen it. is inverted and to open ant0nmtic- I2" V v I 650,129

7 all y when it, is rein vertedfl removable strainer will; over the open. end of vsaid vessel and a pouring vessel to fit downover said strainer and vessel, substantially as shown and described.

EHARLES LEWIS.

Witnesses:

Gno. J. MURRAY, WALTER F. MURRAY. 

